The Budget Office will offer two workshops next week on the fiscal year 2012–2013 budget development process: Monday, March 19, and Thursday, March 22. A complete schedule of workshops can be found on the Budget Office website, including topics, dates, and times. These forums will provide personalized training for this year's budget process and allow for discussion on routine budgetary operations.

All New York State employee reimbursements that will be processed under the new State Financial System will require an individual’s NYS Employee ID. This ID number is located on the employee’s NYS paycheck stub. In order to avoid delays in processing, please provide this number in the Payee ID section of the NYS Travel and Standard vouchers and on the pink requisition form effective immediately, since New York State will not process reimbursement without it. If you have any questions concerning your NYS Employee ID number, please call the Accounts Payable and Travel Services Office at ext. 4117.

As part of Women's History Month, the women and gender studies program at Buffalo State will hold a daylong research symposium to showcase faculty, student, and staff scholarship and research related to women, gender, and sexuality. The symposium will take place on Friday, March 30, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center auditorium. Refreshments will be provided.

We encourage submissions from all departments, programs, and disciplines; diversity will be a key criterion in compiling the program. Presenters may deliver scholarly papers, hold roundtable or panel discussions, show multimedia presentations, or present posters. To be considered for the symposium, please submit the following materials to Jennifer Ryan, associate professor of English and symposium coordinator, by Wednesday, March 14: (1) a brief (200- to 500-word) abstract of your project and how it relates to women and gender studies; (2) a list of all collaborators on the project and any unavailable times on the day of the symposium; (3) a short curriculum vitae OR a brief bio.

For more information, please contact Ryan or visit the women and gender studies website.

Please note the following changes in Buffalo State Dining's hours of operation for March 17 through 25:

March 17–18
All dining locations closed

March 19–23
Spot Coffee: 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
2.mato: 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
All other dining locations closed

March 24
All dining locations closed

March 25
Spot Coffee: noon–10:00 p.m.
2.mato: noon–11:00 p.m.
Sub Generation: noon–11:00 p.m.
Bengal Hall: closed for brunch; dinner noon–8:30 p.m.
All other dining locations closed

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, please visit our website.

Are you considering applying for a sabbatical? Learn about the recent sabbatical experiences of four colleagues. Find out what is involved in applying for a sabbatical and get hints about how to manage your sabbatical to gain the most from it. Join us on Thursday, March 29, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115. A light lunch will be provided.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2728.

E. H. Butler Library has acquired the Vogue Archive, a searchable database of the entire run of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine, featuring color page images, covers, advertisements, and foldouts (1892 to the current month).

Links to Vogue Archive are available in many places on the library’s web page, including the Library Databases A-Z list, the “Find Multimedia” section (Images tab) of the Research dropdown menu, and in selected library Subject Guides. The Library Databases A-Z list and a link to the Subject Guides are on the left side of the library’s web page.

Feel free to share this information with any Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff. If you have any questions, please contact Al Riess, electronic database librarian, or call ext. 6320.

Think spring! The Volunteer and Service-Learning Center (VSLC) has some outstanding service projects lined up for Spring Community Service Day on Saturday, April 21. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join with residents from 8:30 a.m. to noon for a morning of service in neighborhoods throughout the city of Buffalo. Volunteers will be working in community gardens, painting community centers, playing games with seniors, and helping block clubs with spring neighborhood cleanups. Lunch is provided for all volunteers. Explore Buffalo's neighborhoods, connect with communities, act to make change. Register by e-mail at vslc@buffalostate.edu, call ext. 5811, or stop by Cleveland Hall 306.

Banner Preview begins Monday, March 12, for fall and summer 2012 registration. In Banner, students can search the master schedule for fall or summer courses (in draft format), view their assigned advisers, view holds (if applicable), and view their assigned time tickets (if available) for fall and summer 2012 registration.

More details are available on the Student Announcements page under the Summer/Fall 2012 Registration topic title.

In honor of National Nutrition Month and March Madness, power up with fruits that contain essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber that may help protect you from chronic diseases. Compared with people who consume a diet with only small amounts of fruits and vegetables, those who eat more generous amounts as part of a healthful diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases, and certain cancers. 

Fruit Dunk will be held today in Bengal Hall, resident dining in the Campbell Student Union, from noon to 2:00 p.m. Simply select the fruit of your choice, eat it leaving only the core, position yourself behind the line, and dunk the fruit core through the hoop for the chance to win free goodies!

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, visit our website.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for a seminar presentation, “The Effects of Temperature on the Species Composition and Biomass of Cladoceran Communities,” by Irene Feniova, senior scientific researcher from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Ecology and Evolution in Moscow and visiting Fulbright scholar to the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University, on Thursday, April 26, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Classroom Building B119. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.